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ASSIGNMENT: Gustav Mahler: Songs of the Wayfarer  (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen)

Listen to the fourth song The Two Blue Eyes of My Beloved from Mahler’s song cycle The Songs of the Wayfarer

1. Mark the sections of the song by drawing lines at the appropriate places in the text to show where one section ends and the next begins. How many sections are there?
2. Within each section describe how Mahler changes the music to reflect what the poem is about.
3. How does the song end? (Happy, hopeful, optimistic, sad, depressed)
4. Why did Mahler choose to end the song the way he did? What do you think his interpretation of the poem was?

 IV – “Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz” (“The Two Blue Eyes of my Beloved”)

The final movement culminates in a resolution. The music (also reused in the First Symphony) is subdued and gentle, lyrical and often reminiscent of a chorale in its harmonies. Its title, “Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz” (“The Two Blue Eyes of my Beloved”), deals with how the image of those eyes has caused the Wayfarer so much grief that he can no longer stand to be in the environment. He describes lying down under a linden tree, allowing the flowers to fall on him. He wishes to return to his life before his travels. He asks that the whole affair had never occurred: “Everything: love and grief, and world, and dreams!”  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieder_eines_fahrenden_Gesellen

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In a 2 – 4 page paper, analyze the issue and relevant contract terms to determine your decision. Your discussion should include:
Issue: State the issue being addressed as a question; you may directly quote from the Carrell and Heavrin (2013) textbook citing and referencing in APA format.
Contract Terms: What are the terms of the contract that affect the issue? Identify the key, relevant section(s), phrases, or words of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA), and discuss why they are critical in making a decision.
Analysis: What are the management and union positions on the issue? Discuss relevancy and alignment of each position to the CBA and the issue; consider how the components of each position influenced your decision.
Decision: Based on your analysis of the issue, what is your decision – what is your award and opinion in this arbitration?
Preventive Action: Based on your analysis of the underlying causes of this issue, what actions could the employer and union have taken to avoid this conflict? What should be done going forward to prevent similar issues?

Textbook:Carrell, M.R., & Heavrin, C. (2013). Labor relations and collective bargaining: Private and public sectors (10th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson

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Research studies often compare variables, conditions, times, and/or groups of participants to evaluate relationships between variables or

differences between groups or times. For example, if researchers are interested in knowing whether an intervention produces change in the desired

direction, they will want to know whether the change is due to chance (statistical significance) or possibly due to the intervention. In this case,

researchers could use a pre and post measurement of the same participants on the condition being treated, or they could compare a group of

individuals who receive the intervention to a group that does not receive the intervention. Researchers could also compare two groups of individuals

who receive different interventions. The rigor of the research design helps control for other factors that might account for the changes (e.g.,

time, conditions, group differences in other factors, etc.). To prepare for this Discussion, consider the concept of statistical significance.
Post your explanation of how the difference between statistical significance and the true importance (clinical significance) of the relationship

between variables or the degree of difference between groups affect your practice decision making. Be sure to include an explanation of what

statistical significance means. Include an example from a quantitative study that found statistically significant differences. Discuss whether the

results of the study would—or should—influence your practice as a social worker. Please use the resources to support your answer.

Costco case study
Guidelines for Analyzing Cases

Problem and Issue Identification

1. What are the central facts of the case? What assumptions are you making about these facts?

2. What is the major overriding issue in the case? What major question or issues does this case address that merits study at this point in the course?

3. What sub-issues or related issues are present in the case that merit consideration now?

Analysis and Evaluation

1. Who are the stakeholders in the case and what are their stakes? What challenges, threats or opportunities are posed by these stakeholders?

2. What economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic responsibilities does the company have, and what is the nature and extent of these responsibilities?

3. If the case involves company actions, evaluate what the company did or did not do in handling the issue affecting it.

Recommendations

What recommendations do you have for this case? If a company’s strategies or actions are involved, should the company have acted as it did? What action should the company take now? Why? Be as specific as possible. List several options as well as the pros and cons of each alternative. Be prepared to discuss why you eliminated those options you discarded and defend your chosen alternative. Mention and discuss any important implementation considerations. This last step is crucial because recommendations that cannot be implemented are worthless.

Define the Problem:What type of case is this? Decision, Problem or Evaluation? What problem(s) or issue(s) should be the focus for your analysis.

List concepts that can be applied:Write down any principles, frameworks or theories that can be applied.

List relevant qualitative data:Evidence related to the quality or character of something or someone.

List relevant quantitative data:evidence related to the amount or number of something. Salient financial ratio analysis? Trends over time?

Describe the results of your analysis:What evidence have you accumulated that supports one interpretation over another.

Describe alternative actions:List and prioritize possible recommendations or actions that come out of your analysis. Remember, choices emerge from your analysis of what’s going on.

Describe your preferred action plan:Write a clear statement of what you would recommend including short, medium and long-term steps to be carried out. If you can’t summarize it in a clear, understandable sentence, keep working.

Using only the book "US History" (Authors: P. Scott Corbett, Volker Janssen, John M. Lund, Todd Pfannestiel, and Paul Vickery) (company: OpenStax, Corbett, and Rice University, 2017) as the sole source for the paper,

SCENARIO: You are a poor but respectable young woman from East Anglia. You are intelligent, literate and a good worker but there are no good opportunities for employment at home or even in London. You want more out of life and hope to get ahead in the world. Therefore, you have decided to take your chances as an indentured servant in the English colonies. After your period of indenture, you hope to settle down and get married. Which colony do you choose? Why? (Note: you should consider social, economic, and political reasons and mention how your colony is different/better than the others)

a.Massachusetts Bay
b.Pennsylvania
c.Maryland
d.Virginia

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Today’s teenagers were born at the turn of the 21st century. They represent billions of dollars in buying power, but the big question for marketer

is how to reach them.

These teens have grown up in the electronic age and take it for granted. They link to communicate with each other-and can do so almost constantly.

One study estimates that teenagers spend more than seven hours a day using media of various kinds, mostly electronic. How do they log this

astonishing amount of time? By sacrificing sleep and by multitasking. Parents often find their teens listening to music, watching TV, doing

homework, playing a videogames, and text messaging.

Which media do teenagers neglect or ignore? They hardly ever read newspapers Jeffery Cole, the director of the Center for the Digital Future at the

University of Southern California, predicts that printed newspapers will eventually become extinct as social media steadily increase in power. Teens

want news, he explains, but only about the narrowly focused community of their peers.

Teenagers don’t contact their peers through e-mail. One survey indicates that although 73 percent of teens visit social-networking sites, only about

8 percent use Twitter. They do like smart phones, especially those with apps for constant status updates, but don’t make any phone calls. Instead,

they text message, sometimes sending up to 10 messages an hour.

Marketers will need to learn how to reach teenagers by inviting their input, listening to them with genuine respect, adopting their suggestions, and

continuing to ask for feedback. Morgan Stewart of ExactTarget conducted a survey asking teens which brand they thought did the best job of

communicating with them. To his surprise, Amazon got more write-in votes than any other brand, including Facebook. He says of Amazon, “Teens can

read reviews, they can submit their own and they can get recommendations based on what they link.” Stewart believes that “managing your Amazon

presence is more important than building out a Facebook strategy.”

Of course, even Amazon is only one component of integrated marketing plan. Teenagers are highly suspicious of anything that even remotely resembles

advertising. When shopping, they depend heavily on the opinions of their peers. They also enjoy fun sites such as Sporcle.com, FunnyOrDie.com, and

FailBlog.org. YouTube is another important-and free-tool for viral marketing.

Jeffery Cole thinks that as today’s teens mature, the allure of knowing everything about their friends will fade. What will endure will be what

every generation wants: they will still want to have “total control over their media” as a way of having “real control over their lives.”

Questions for Critical Thinking

Discuss how marketers can reach teens with specially tailored promotional campaigns for such goods and services as video games, smartphone apps, and

concert tickets.
How can marketers best target teens so as to appeal to them but without making them feel talked down to? Suggest a marketing or promotional theme

for one product that you think would appeal to a teen.

This assignment provides you with the opportunity to synthesize and apply the concepts learned in this course to analyze a real-world business case.

The analytical exercises will improve your understanding and ability to think critically about the importance of diversity management in the

workplace.

Your report for solving the case must be at least 300 words with a Citation page, and must include the following headings:

Overview – Summarizing the case scenario and identifying all the problems, issues, constraints, related to the case.
Discussion Questions – Answering all the questions.
Debriefing – Reflecting your thoughts, opinions, and solutions based on the case

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INSTRUCTIONS for FINAL PROJECT
“A Description, Analysis, and Critique of Religious Ritual”
Paper & Presentation

Purpose:
To observe, analyze, and critique a central ritual in a religious tradition (other than your own) with a view toward understanding how the

religion takes shape in the actual “performance” of the rite. You will want to refer to Ronald Grimes “Mapping Ritual” and “Modes of Ritual”

PDF’s in the Canvas Module.

Requirements:
1. 12-15 page paper (3000-3500 words, APA format), see instructions below.
2. 8-10 minute speech (video tape yourself and upload to Canvas).
3. Formal outline and speaking outline.
4. Power point slide show (12-15 slides), detailing a summary of your findings.

This 12-15 page essay, and 8-10 minute oral presentation, will describe, analyze, and critique your visit to a religious institution in South

Florida (including a thorough description, detailed analysis, and critique). You must attend a religious ritual of a tradition to which you do

not belong and have no prior experience with. Be sure to contact the institution first (phone or via the web) to verify its location and

worship schedule. You should also inquire if special dress is required. (A general rule of thumb for dress is to err on the conservative

side, and be sure to cover your shoulders, belly button and knees). IMPORTANT: Do not take any notes while you attend; rather, wait until you

leave and then find a quiet place to write down answers to the questions below.
The ritual you choose to attend can be a daily, weekly, monthly or annual ceremony (but it must be a “main” event, not an informal/occasional

one). When you attend if anyone asks who you are, you should introduce yourself as a student at Lynn University. Oftentimes someone will come

up to you, assuming that you are a potential convert; you may wish to gently inform them that you are simply a student of religion broadening

your horizons in religious tolerance and understanding.

On a separate title page be sure to list:
 your name
 name of the site visited
 religion of the site (including branch, denomination or sect if applicable)
 address and contact information (phone, email) for the site
 date and time of your visit
 names of any staff or officials at the site with whom you communicated

There are 3 parts to this project, each with its own set of questions to address as follows:

PART I: THE DESCRIPTIVE TASK

Key Question to ask: “What is going on here?”

[NB: This segment should be answered strictly on the basis of what you saw, not on the basis of previous experience, theoretical knowledge or

questioning of the participants]

The purpose of this section is to give a complete description of what you observe.

Give a narrative account from beginning to end of the sequence of events which you observe, including a list of the various parts of the ritual

(eg. Opening Prayer, Song, etc.). Be as thorough as possible (without spending more than 1000 words on this section).

Use Ronald Grimes’ article, “Mapping the Field of Ritual” (found in Canvas) to describe each of the following:

• Ritual Space
• Ritual Objects
• Ritual Time
• Ritual Sound
• Ritual Language
• Ritual Identity
• Ritual Action

PART II: THE ANALYTICAL TASK

Key Question to ask: “What does it mean?”

[NB: These questions should only be reviewed and answered once the first part (writing down your Observation) has been completed]

1. Where, if anywhere, is the sense of the “sacred” manifested? How is it marked-off and distinguished from the “profane”? How is it

acknowledged? (Verbally? Gesture? Ornamentation? Other ways?)

2. Briefly, what images/concepts of, God are fostered and conveyed by the rite? How does this occur or get accomplished?

3. What specific Beliefs and Values are reinforced by the rite? How does this process occur? In other words, how is it accomplished? What

beliefs and values are censored-out or negated by the rite?

4. Where and how, if at all, is the sense of “liminality” (time out of time) apparent? How was it created?

5. How open is the rite, in your brief observation of it, to the introduction of possible new ways of ritualizing? In other words, is it

fixed/fossilized in its form or is it open to new forms? How is this evident?

PART III: THE CRITICAL TASK

Key Question to ask: “Does it work?” “How might it be improved?”

[NB: To be done only after part I and II are completed]

1. Does this rite, both in its form and content, adequately express the essence of this religion? (a brief explanation of what is the

essence of the religion may be necessary)

2. Do any parts of this ritual “subvert” or “undermine” the sense of the divine/God or core valued?

3. Is the rite genuine (having a sense of being rooted in history) while also gracious (accounting for the here and now)? In other words,

has the religion/ritual adapted to the current geographic and historical context of 21st century North America?

4. Does this ritual produce/engender personal and social transformation? Is there an efficacy to the ritual? How might this be improved?

5. Finally, does it produce “communitas” (a la Victor Turner)? Cf. Driver 152-165. How might it be improved?